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I've been frequenting r/homelab quite a bit to learn a bit but holy hell some people go a little too nuts for this poo poo for what ultimately becomes a Plex server with Grafana.quote:I have the following systems in the rack, from bottom to top: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/dymgwk/built_a_pretty_new_system_to_test_debug_and_learn/
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idgi My home network is one machine with an old i5 and 16gb ram. I run plex off of it plus the usual sonarr/radarr setup. I also run google wifi instead of some insane ubnt setup. I don't have the time or the inclination to dick around with this poo poo at home anymore.
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Nov 19, 2019 20:08
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These are the people who spec huge instances to run 24x7 without any committed use discount and then post threads about how their dumb boss thinks you can save money in the cloud, though. I see people running 16GB RAM in a pfSense box that's pushing 100Mbps of traffic through it, it's just bizarre.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:00
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Our mail server has randomly restarted. According to Dell, it's a BIOS/DRAC issue and upgradnig to a newer version will fix it. BIOS 2.8.0 005/17/2018 Basically anything newer will fix it, current version is 2.10 It's an issue with Broadwell CPU's apparently. I investigate and write it all up. Also said that we should upgrade any other system we have from Dell with the same Broadwell CPU's. Boss wrote back: "Does anyone have any recommendation on how we would work this in with everything else going on right now?" I want to reply with, I get that we have other things going on butiIs it too much to ask that every 90 days we upgrade things like OS's and BIOS and firmwares and such? I mean we do have redhat 6.2 and centos 7.2 boxes all over... I feel as a sysadmin it's part of your job to do maintainence type stuff like that.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:15
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Pissing me off: Microsoft forms isn't actually for making forms to fill in (like an order form) and neither is the "pro" version of it. They're survey monkey derivatives for surveys, quizzes, and polls.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:22
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Thanks Ants posted:These are the people who spec huge instances to run 24x7 without any committed use discount and then post threads about how their dumb boss thinks you can save money in the cloud, though. Until 2 years ago I had a Dell P4 desktop with 2GB of ram as my gateway, running OpenBSD. I think it was old enough to drive, though I'm not sure. I got it old. I've upgraded to an i3 box though since then, with 4GB of ram. Still the same OpenBSD though, now on a speedy 80GB SSD.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:36
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incoherent posted:Pissing me off: Microsoft forms isn't actually for making forms to fill in (like an order form) and neither is the "pro" version of it. They're survey monkey derivatives for surveys, quizzes, and polls. They never claimed it was anything else?
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Nov 19, 2019 21:38
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cage-free egghead posted:I've been frequenting r/homelab quite a bit to learn a bit but holy hell some people go a little too nuts for this poo poo for what ultimately becomes a Plex server with Grafana. I was OK with this until the i9 machine to "see how Window Server 2019 works" I mean I've got a bunch of old G6-8 DL 380/360's I got for free or <$100 sitting in a rack I got 2nd hand that are turned off for 360 days a year, so the old 710/610's don't seem that crazy to me (if you're OK with the power bill).
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Nov 19, 2019 22:05
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I'd bet a sandy bridge i7 with a pair of cheap SSD's would beat a 710 pretty good unless you're actually running something that needs 12 cores and never ever touches those arrays of spinning drives
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Nov 19, 2019 22:19
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loving lol at this outsourced third party training with a url nobody here heard of, and everybody here has to do. It has a page dedicated to advising people not to trust any links in emails that are claiming to be official university resources, but don't have an official university url. Unless of course it was the link you were supposed to click to start the mandatory training.
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Nov 20, 2019 01:49
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cage-free egghead posted:I've been frequenting r/homelab quite a bit to learn a bit but holy hell some people go a little too nuts for this poo poo for what ultimately becomes a Plex server with Grafana. JFC. I thought my kit was bad and mine is in use for my after-hours consulting gig. But a hundred gigs of ram in your storage array for four 4tb disks? And everything else in that rack screams overbuilt and over-spec’d but dated hardware.
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Nov 20, 2019 04:27
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Agrikk posted:JFC. I thought my kit was bad and mine is in use for my after-hours consulting gig. What hardware do you run?  That guy has more recent hardware than me, heh. Oh well...
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Nov 20, 2019 11:30
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Still running a Gen5 DL380 with the external 2U SAS Storage array rack.  /Plex/Security cameras/general storage across the house. Thank goodness for noise canceling headphones in the computer room!
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Nov 20, 2019 12:47
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Oh god, I have two of those... They make an ungodly racket. Thankfully mine are turned off
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Nov 20, 2019 13:05
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I just got a gen 7 of those. Really like it, made sure to get the low power cpu so I'm only pulling like 80w. Been fun to learn stuff on. Can't wait to buy 5 more and then load em up with ram to serve me
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Nov 20, 2019 13:33
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Pissing me off: the generally lovely interviews my employer gives. I just interviewed for an internal sysadmin spot and grossly misunderstood what the job actually was. The posting asked for X years using and deploying with SCCM/JAMF, powershell, AD/GP, etc. I thought it sounded great, I do all those things all the time. I get in there and they ask me how I would go about building and implementing a SCCM server from scratch. ... what makes you think I know that? "hmm yes I can see you've been driving for a few years now. Tell me, how would you build a car?" The thing that threw me the worst though, get this. They want someone to build SCCM and JAMF and entire AD structures from the ground up, and the pay range was 55 - 60. Fuckin' yikes.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:03
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Ghostnuke posted:Pissing me off: the generally lovely interviews my employer gives. I had an interview like that earlier this year. They had some guy who had dabbled in IT years ago handling all their needs and then an MSP for anything major but they advertised it like the department was already established and you just maintain it. Come to find out it's just like your situation and you'd be on call for 24/7. Pretty sure the pay was even worse than what you said.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:13
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Ghostnuke posted:Pissing me off: the generally lovely interviews my employer gives. One of my guys had an initial call with a company wanting a cloud administrator. Their "ceiling" was 63k. When he declined to discuss the job further, the hiring manager sent a pretty annoyed email after complaining about how people are wanting way too much money to do a "simple" job. I am convinced that the 63k ceiling had something to do with the hiring managers salary in some way because its way too weird a number.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:30
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Another day, another false-positive ticket to close from the network security department that refuses to remember we run a Linux-only webhost that can't be infected with Windows-only trojans, with their only clue being 'traffic on port 80 from an IP originating in China'.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:31
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5er posted:Another day, another false-positive ticket to close from the network security department that refuses to remember we run a Linux-only webhost that can't be infected with Windows-only trojans, with their only clue being 'traffic on port 80 from an IP originating in China'. Is the ticket manually created or do they have SEIM solution automate sending tickets to your queue?
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Nov 20, 2019 15:33
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Our security guys are basically email forwarders. They can't answer any questions about the output from their scanner that they forward to us, they only nag us until the scanner stops producing output.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:36
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cage-free egghead posted:I've been frequenting r/homelab quite a bit to learn a bit but holy hell some people go a little too nuts for this poo poo for what ultimately becomes a Plex server with Grafana. None of that is particularly crazy or out there. You ought to see mine.
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A quick update about James and his department. I've back on his good side, he says. He also says that he was so shaken up by me speaking during the meeting that he couldn't sleep that night. When we had a one-on-one whenever, the day after my last post here, he let it slip that he "went downstairs to vent" which means complained to the COO. But like people here have mentioned, he's only making himself look bad so I don't really care as long as it doesn't interfere with our work. He did mention that he knows that I'm going to leave for another agency sometime and that he fully supports me, which is great? Like, yes, I'm ambitious and plan on shopping around for a better job sometime next year once we're through this domain migration + Windows 10 upgrade + adoption of OneDrive and I get some other current projects wrapped up. Like, I'm mostly committed to finishing these big jobs but there was a sense of... pushing me out? Like if I told him I found another job he wouldn't be too concerned despite the chaos that I'm keeping a handle on. I take pride in my work though so I'm sticking around until I detox the weed out of my system and can pass another government check. My situation is unique, though. Since James took over as Director of IT there have been three resignations where people have moved up and out, and two internal moves to different departments. Out star programmer just turned in his two weeks to go work with our old Deputy Director in a higher government office. And the old DD apparently has a list of people he hired that he wants to bring onto his team (I'm not on it, but I understand why and am not bothered by it). Hiring for a government position here takes months, so everyone who leaves means the department is weakened for ages. Of course, if our IT department is made obsolete after this domain change it could just be a matter of shrinking the department by attrition, I don't know. I just know that the people who have been here for a few years are updating their resumes and getting ready to jump ship, and the new people don't seem to fully grasp what they've gotten into. Have I mentioned that we haven't had a Helpdesk Supervisor since April? And that the Network Techs are starting to fight among themselves because no one is exercising authority to keep them on task. The guy who's been brown-nosing the most just got himself into some trouble with his coworkers for tattling and the whole thing is a poo poo show. I'm glad I'm not in that mess anymore but it doesn't do us any favors to have significant operations hindered by a lack of leadership like this. Unrelated to the IT shop but we had a group of employees get canned on Monday for a) drinking alcohol at Applebee's during lunch b) leaving without paying the bill and c) wearing their work badges while they ate at the bar. Just crazy stupid people.
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LawfulWaffle posted:he let it slip that he "went downstairs to vent" which means complained to the COO. Shut up Meg posted:Honestly: time to think about moving on.
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Sickening posted:Is the ticket manually created or do they have SEIM solution automate sending tickets to your queue? It's manually, shamefully created. The subtext is that I'm fairly sure they know it's false positive, but they enjoy badgering us because we won't open a few particular ports for some third party scanning software that they aren't even using correctly.
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5er posted:It's manually, shamefully created. The subtext is that I'm fairly sure they know it's false positive, but they enjoy badgering us because we won't open a few particular ports for some third party scanning software that they aren't even using correctly. They open a ticket because it shows they are doing "something".
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Sickening posted:They open a ticket because it shows they are doing "something". That's definitely the guy that halts all my purchase orders over $5000 to 'just ask some questions' and 'get some clarifications on the business purpose of your purchase'.
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Nov 20, 2019 20:28
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Sickening posted:They open a ticket because it shows they are doing "something". METRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICS. Coworker commented that today is slow and so our boss will probably badger him about our ticket statistics. I...don't really give a gently caress what my daily close rate is; we're not a call center that's paid based on ~~metrics~~ so a slow day just means time to work on any stuff that's been put on the back burner.
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dragonshardz posted:METRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICS. My past job hounded my team about metrics, literally down to how many tickets we closed. My boss hated it and would often argue against it, but the C-levels didn't give a poo poo. They just saw it as a cost center. We would put any bullshit thing into tickets; cleaning up folders, clearing a print queue with a simple script, spending an hour on the phone with a vendor, etc. Management thought the golden standard was 8-11 tickets a day. I am so happy to be in a place that logs tickets using the same system (servicenow), but has the blessing of the CEO that it's not as simple as us being a cost center so we have no metrics outside of our financials. We simply keep our production people up and running with little overhead and everyone loves us. It's pretty great.
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Yeah yeah, I know. I'm just sticking around long enough to get us through this upgrade and then I'll sling my hook elsewhere. The people our IT shop serves do vital work for our community and they don't deserve the hell they'd get if I noped out of here in the thick of it. He's not making my life horrible every day and I like the work that I do, so I'll stick with my plan of shopping for a Management Analyst/Project Manager position with the state around Q2 next year. e: An Assistant Director got wind of our Win10 upgrade plans and she "wants as little interruption to her business as possible during the equipment upgrade. She would prefer PM re-imaging, nights and weekends." Sounds like overtime, baybee. Gonna have to set up some hypercare center just for me so I can report any problems but I"ll happily stick around an empty building pressing a few keys on each device for time and a half. LawfulWaffle fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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We were acquired by a large German industrial manufacturing conglomerate in August, and they've been sending our employees threatening e-mails to do an eLearning we can't even access every month. The latest one even threatened to "record your failure to comply"!
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Nov 20, 2019 23:05
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LawfulWaffle posted:
I'd be MAXIMUM PETTY and only resolve their issues after hours and on weekends.
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dragonshardz posted:METRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICS. While I'm in the ticket system as a technician, their ticket system has absolutely zero impact on my performance evaluation. As I've worked in the past for quite a few corporations, I know exactly how 'METRICS' are used to mathematically validate whether or not some shitfuck do-nothing supervisor or manager is doing their job. I enjoy letting most of those false-flag, frivolous emails sit as timeout warning after timeout warning gets sent to my email, and I can only hope my lack of cooperation fucks up their precious statistics. Maximum petty indeed!
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Nov 21, 2019 01:45
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We’re a small enough shop that when I started we didn’t have a ticketing system at all and fielded requests through helpdesk@domain.fart, and it worked well enough. The director of operations, who oversees IT and facilities, decided that due to his need for, you guessed it, Metrics, we would all be moving to a unified ticketing system and our job performance would be evaluated based on said Metrics. Anyway, it’s been three years, that guy got fired, and my boss told me that as far as she can tell, not once did he ever pull a report on our ticket numbers.
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Nov 21, 2019 01:52
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Huh, according to one petty user, me asking them to fill out a form fully so I can actually set people up properly counts as me having a weird vendetta against her department. No, you gently caress. I want you to fill out the form so I can do my job. Thanks.
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Oh my helpdesk guy never fails when it comes to just doing the worst possible thing when dealing with a decision. We have our network and we have a government network on site. A department primarly use the government network and their printer failed. They print reports of a sensitive nature, so we did some bodging to get a printer operational for them as the government were being slow to supply a replacement, however, it came this week so I sent helpdesk guy off to replace them. All we really do is plug stuff in, but because it's a printer you have to log a ticket to get the mac address lock off and get them to config the printer, so helpdesk guy basically says 'oh no, this lot are going to complain when i give them this printer because we will take away a working one and this one wont work until the helpdesk deal with it' (probably take a day or 2, beyond our control) So I said, well if you explain what the deal is, then they might understand whats going on, try to do it in a way where they understand the constraints and they will probably accept the siutation, or find out what their concerns are and provide a work around - see what you can do... I get a call from the manager saying helpdesk guy is a nob because he turned up, said their printer isn't going to work until the government helpdesk get round to doing the setup on th new one and then just left (It sounded a bit mic drop-esque ha ha) This time I've tried to explain to him that because he has made the decision to take their printer away, if something goes wrong, that department will say 'this went wrong because helpdesk guy took the printer away' (e.g. they deal with some sensitive info which they now have to print in another building, so it is a tangible risk) I also explained that the way to deal with this is where I said find out their concerns and find a work around - in this scenario, the network switch is full so we could say to them, if you sacrafice a computer, then we can get both printers working with an overlap or you can manage the risk of printing in another building (e.g. use PIN printing) but - if you give those option to the manager and they make the call - you are in the clear. My concern is what he does in this situation is he runs directly to the manager, asks the question above, does the action as per instructed then comes back and tells me he's fixed it... but he hasn't fixed the underlying problem that if you look at my previous 10-15 posts in this thread these sorts of things continue to happen... maybe I should review them myself to get the examples and make that point...
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We use SysAid for our ticketing but the only metrics that really got pulled from it were when I was a Network Technician. That's because I would pull reports to confirm that I was doing twice as much work as my two coworkers and later to say that 40% of our tickets were for things the user should be able to manage themselves (password resets where there's an obvious "Forgot Password?" button) I was helping an assistant director here set up a new account that is increasingly important to operations. During this transition to this new domain we all got new email addresses that are in -=THE CLOUD=- which isn't supported by our Outlook and upgrading our Outlook desktop clients would involve putting it on unsupported hardware so everyone is forced to use webmail, which they hate. So to get into webmail they have a new user ID, and part of the process is establishing a way to retrieve the password in case the user forgets it. So cue this assistant director lawyer type sitting next to me trying to set up her account. I advise her that the easiest way through it is to just put in her mobile number so they text her a code, but she opts to do the security questions. Now, normally I wouldn't look but I did catch a glimpse of what she was putting in and they were all nonsense answers, like "nothing" and "anywhere", just incredibly vague and forgettable answers. About a week later I saw that she had submitted a ticket to reset her "webmail password" 
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We just ordered a pile of WD USB hard drives. I guess we're not going to even try doing network-based backups....
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Bob Morales posted:We just ordered a pile of WD USB hard drives. I guess we're not going to even try doing network-based backups.... Well at least they're not Seagate, so you might actually be able to keep functional backups on them.
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Was trying to troubleshoot a VoIP issue today.. Trying to setup a IVR for after hours/overflow use, but was having problems with outbound audio being severely distorted when the PBX did an auto transfer. Manual transfers into the IVR where fine, but auto transfers by the PBX where not. I was digging through SIP traces, network traces, going through settings, etc... And then it hit me looking through settings. Our SIP trunk provider only supports G711u. When I had setup the trunk year ago I left a bunch of codecs in the "available codecs" list, but just moved G711u to the top. Removing all codecs but G711u fixed the problem. The PBX would use G711u normally, but for some reason would try to use G711a when it did an auto transfer, even though that was not the preferred codec. WTF?!?!
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